Note: The UBC Human Rights Collective (HRC) is based out of the UBC Office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE). The HRC is supported by the wider UBC ORICE team.
Dr. Jenny Peterson
Faculty AdvisorDr. Jenny Peterson (she/her) is the Faculty Advisor for the UBC Human Rights Collective. Jenny Peterson joined the department from the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (Manchester) where she worked as a lecturer from 2009-2013. She is broadly interested in the politics of international aid with her past work analyzing process of liberal peacebuilding and critiques thereof. [...]
Tamara Baldwin
Director, Office of Regional and International Community EngagementTamara Baldwin (she/her) is the Director of the Office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE) at the University of British Columbia (which the UBC Human Rights Collective is housed under). Tamara has worked in higher education for two decades with a background in community/international development, student engagement, curriculum design, assessment and facilitation. [...]
Holly Benna
ORICE Program AssistantHolly Benna (she/her) is the Program Coordinator in the Office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE). She completed her BA in Sociology at UBC, and holds an MPhil in Development, Environment and Cultural Change [...]
Michelle Read
Human Rights Defenders Program AssistantMichelle Read is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the Global Resource Systems program at UBC, where she explores intersections of environmental and political science. She is passionate about advancing social and environmental justice [...]